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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Pickens County |
 | | The Civil War (1861-65) divided the county's population for generations; Pickens County contributed men to both the Confederacy and the Union. |
 | | Marble from Pickens County went into major public buildings across the country and, reportedly, in 60 percent of the monuments in Washington, D.C. Mica was quarried for electric switchboards during the early 1900s, and copper, graphite, gold, iron, silver, slate, and talc mines have also operated in Pickens County. |
 | | The population of Pickens County, according to the 2000 census, was 22,983 (96 percent white, 1 percent fl, |
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